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of the entomological sub-section of the same. He was elected 

 a member of the American Entomological Society in 1859, a 

 correspondent of The Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia, 

 in 1844, and was a member of the American Philosophical So- 

 ciety, and read an important paper at the celebration of the one 

 hundred and fiftieth anniversary of that institution and was also 

 a member of very many church organizations. Dr. Morris was 

 a prolific writer on religious subjects as well as those of a scien- 

 tific character. His principal contributions to the literature of 

 entomology were very valuable; they were a " Catalogue of the 

 Described Lepidoptera of North America," prepared for the 

 Smithsonian Institution, Washington, 1860, and " Synopsis of 

 the Described Lepidoptera of North America." Part I: Diurnal 

 and Crepuscular Lepidoptera. Washington, 1862. The latter 

 work contained descriptions of the then known Diurnse, Sphin- 

 gidse and Bombycidae. He was a professor of Natural History 

 in the Maryland University, and possessed a fine collection of 

 Lepidoptera. Dr. Morris was a delightful old gentleman, and 

 his interest in entomology never abated in the least. We had a 

 very pleasant visit from him when he came here to attend the 

 celebration at the rooms of the American Philosophical Society. 



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Notes on the Cocoons of Certain Species of Saturniidae. 



By PHILIP LAURENT. 



In the September number of the "Canadian Entomologist," 

 vol. xxvii, pp. 263-271, will be found a very interesting article 

 by A. Radcliffe Grote, A. M. The article, among other things, 

 treats of the manner in which certain of our North American 

 Saturniidae construct their cocoons. Two of our species, both 

 of which are quite common in Pennsylvania and New Jersey, are 

 here recorded as spinning their cocoons some distance above the 

 ground, the one with a pedicel of silk to a small limb or branch, 

 while the other as spinning its cocoon in the leaves, and falling 

 to the ground when the leaves fall. 



Now, the fact is, as regards these two species {Callosamia an- 

 gnlifera and Actias luna), at least as far as their habits in Penn- 

 sylvania and New Jersey are concerned, and I doubt not but 

 what it is the same wherever the species are found, that both 

 angulifera and luna, as a rule, with few exceptions, descend the 



